The Village On The Plain

Author : Dwayne Cox
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319093
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village on the Plain written by Dwayne Cox and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long overdue for an institutional history, Auburn University possesses a rich and storied past. Dwayne Cox's The Village on the Plain traces the school's history in authoritative detail from its origins as a private college through its emergence as a complex land-grant university. Originally founded prior to the Civil War with an emphasis on classical education, Auburn became the state's land-grant college after the cessation of hostilities. This infused the school with a vision of the South as a commercial and industrial rival to the North. By the 1880s, instruction in applied science had become Auburn's curricular version of this "New South" creed. Like most southern universities, Auburn never enjoyed financial abundance, creating scarcity that intensified internal debate over whether liberal arts or applied disciplines deserved more of the school's limited resources. Meager state funding for higher education complicated Auburn's rise and became a source of competition with the University of Alabama. This rivalry was perhaps most intense between 1908 and 1948, when the two schools did not meet on the gridiron, but blocked and tackled one another in the legislature over the division of state funds. Like many universities founded in somewhat isolated locations during the antebellum period, Auburn developed an insular culture, which hindered the school's progress in issues related to race. Cox traces how this insularity also found expression in the school's resistance to outside academic regulatory organizations as well as in conflicts over the university's governance. Auburn University's history is that of a small private college that transformed itself in the face of sweeping national events and state politics, not only to survive threats but to emerge more complex and resilient. Offering much to students of higher education and Alabama history, as well as readers affiliated with Auburn University, The Village on the Plain tells the story of this complex and fascinating institution.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goldsmith's The Deserted Village written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Crabbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village written by George Crabbe and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Bad Hand Terry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780431042435
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village written by Michael Bad Hand Terry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series looks at history in a lively manner for children. Each book portrays the way of life of people from the past in colour photographs of real objects. This work looks at a Plains Indian village.

Author : Louise Glück
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466875631
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Village Life written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize-winning poet A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees— The fountain rises at the center of the plaza; on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub. —from "tributaries" Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines—expansive, fluent, and full—manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

Author : Elbert M. Hoppenstedt
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Deserted Village written by Elbert M. Hoppenstedt and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronnie was in the hayloft sliding down the piles of newly-stacked hay when he heard the car drive up into the yard and come to a stop. Spitting a mouthful of hayseeds from his lips and tongue, he ran over to the open doors and peered down into the yard.

Author : Dan Hancox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1781681309
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village Against the World written by Dan Hancox and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly "Red Sundays" where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood. In particular he tells the story of the village mayor, Sanchez Gordillo, who in 2012 became a household name in Spain after leading raids on local supermarkets to feed the Andalucian unemployed.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 1536204439
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village Blacksmith written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary envisioning of a nineteenth-century poem pairs artwork by G. Brian Karas with the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow classic. His brow is wet with honest sweat; He earns whate’er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. The neighborhood blacksmith is a quiet and unassuming presence, tucked in his smithy under the chestnut tree. Sturdy, generous, and with sadness of his own, he toils through the day, passing on the tools of his trade, and come evening, takes a well-deserved rest. Longfellow’s timeless poem is enhanced by G. Brian Karas’s thoughtful and contemporary art in this modern retelling of the tender tale of a humble craftsman. An afterword about the tools and the trade of blacksmithing will draw readers curious about this age-honored endeavor, which has seen renewed interest in developed countries and continues to be plied around the world.

Author : Pausanias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pausanias's Description of Greece written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village written by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in 1909 and first published in 1910 by the Saint Petersburg magazine Sovremenny Mir (issues Nos. 3, 10-11) under the title Novelet. The Village caused much controversy at the time, though it was highly praised by Maxim Gorky (who from then on regarded the author as the major figure in Russian literature), among others, and is now generally regarded as Bunin's first masterpiece. Composed of brief episodes set in its author's birthplace at the time of the 1905 Revolution, it tells the story of two peasant brothers, one a brute drunk, the other a gentler, more sympathetic character. Bunin's realistic portrayal of the country life jarred with the idealized picture of "unspoiled" peasants which was common for the mainstream Russian literature, and featured the characters deemed 'offensive' by many, which were "so far below the average in terms of intelligence as to be scarcely human".